Are you riding for the Kane team? They used to do the womens cheerwine bikes, and they had the best paint I have ever seen.

No, I just scored an end of season deal on eBay, and was able to pick it up from Jack's shop in Jacksonville. The paint is really sexy, and looks amazing in the sun when the pearl in the paint "pops." It's basically a generic frame, but it rides great. It's stiff as hell, which is exactly what I'm looking for. I'm no climber, so a frame that gains a few ounces but doesn't slop all over the place is a big plus.

Since this thread has been resurrected and I'm bored, I'll throw in my rig:

'03 TCR Team Once frameset, DA 10 cranks, Ultegra 9 shifters, DA 9 everything else, old Hed Deep tubulars. I think I have about $1k in it, including wheels. ~17 lbs as it sits (without the seat bag, of course).

How the hell did you score all that for $1k? Ebay, piece by piece? My preferred method.

Pretty much. The frameset was $450 from the Slowtwitch classifieds, and the cranks were $250 from a local friend. Shifters were free; guy said they were jammed and useless. The Flightdeck wiring was tangled in the shifter. Most of the rest of the stuff came from my old tri bike that I bought complete and sold later as a frameset: net cost, about $300.

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Some piece of crap ITM aluminum bars. I've got a set of Deda traditional bend bars in the mail right now and will swap before the weekend. Why, you want them? You can have them for $10+shipping.

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